REG - Aptamer Group PLC - Issue of Equity in lieu of Director fees

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RNS Number : 0031V  Aptamer Group PLC  28 January 2025

 

28 January 2025

 

Aptamer Group plc

 

("Aptamer", the "Company" or the "Group")

 

Issue of Equity in lieu of Director fees

 

Aptamer Group plc (AIM: APTA), the developer of novel Optimer(®) binders to
enable innovation in the life sciences industry, today announces that it has
issued 3,499,343 new ordinary shares of 0.1 pence each ("Ordinary Shares") at
an average issue price of 0.2858 pence per Ordinary Share to settle
Non-Executive Director fees.

 

Director fee shares

 

Tim Sykes has agreed to take his Non-Executive Director fees in shares
commencing 1 January 2025. Shares will be issued to Tim on a quarterly basis
in lieu of fees. Today's share issue will cover the period 1 January 2025 to
31 March 2025. Each quarter, the price of each share issue will be based on
the volume weighted average daily closing share price of the preceding
quarter. For this share issue, that was the period 1 October 2024 to 31
December 2024.

 

Following this transaction, Tim Sykes total beneficial interest in the Company
is 8,671,063 Ordinary Shares, representing approximately 0.44% of the
Company's issued share capital.

 

Total voting rights

 

Application will be made for the admission of these shares to trading on AIM,
which is expected to become effective on or about 3 February 2025.

 

Immediately following Admission the Company will have 1,991,343,016 Ordinary
Shares of £0.001 each in issue. The Company does not hold any shares in
treasury and all of the Ordinary Shares have equal voting rights. Therefore,
the figures above represent the total voting rights in the Company and may be
used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they can
determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to
their interest in the Company under the Rules.

 

Additional information

 

The following disclosures are made in accordance with the requirements of the
UK Market Abuse Regulation and provide detail in relation to the purchase of
Ordinary Shares by Directors and other PDMRs in the Company.

 

NOTIFICATIONS AND PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF TRANSACTIONS BY PERSONS DISCHARGING
MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND PERSONS CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH THEM

 

 1    Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely

    associated

 a)   Name                                                         Tim Sykes

 2    Reason for the notification

 a)   Position/status                                              Non-Executive Director

 b)   Initial notification /Amendment                              Initial notification

 3    Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction

    platform, auctioneer or auction monitor

 a)   Name                                                         Aptamer Group plc

 b)   LEI                                                          213800Y4XGH3WJNBE686

 4    Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of

    instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each
      place where transactions have been conducted

 a)   Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument  Ordinary shares of £0.001 each

      Identification code                                          GB00BNRRP542

 b)   Nature of the transaction                                    Award of shares

 c)   Price(s) and volume(s)

Price(s)  Volume(s)
                                                                   0.2858p   3,499,343

 

 d)   Aggregated information

      - Aggregated volume                                          3,499,343
      - Price                                                      0.2858p each

 e)   Date of the transaction                                      28 January 2025

 f)   Place of the transaction                                     Off market

 

 

d)

 

Aggregated information

- Aggregated volume

3,499,343

- Price

0.2858p each

e)

 

Date of the transaction

 

 

28 January 2025

f)

 

Place of the transaction

 

Off market

 

- Ends -

 

For further information, please contact:

 

 Aptamer Group plc                                        +44 (0) 1904 217 404

 Arron Tolley, Chief Executive Officer
 SPARK Advisory Partners Limited - Nominated Adviser      +44 (0) 20 3368 3550

 Andrew Emmott / Jade Bayat
 Turner Pope Investments (TPI) Limited - Broker           +44 (0) 20 3657 0050

 James Pope / Andrew Thacker
 Northstar Communications Limited - Investor Relations    +44 (0) 113 730 3896

 Sarah Hollins

 

This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of the UK
Market Abuse Regulation.

 

About Aptamer Group plc

 

Aptamer Group is a leading global developer of aptamer-based ligands that help
scientists remove the limits to discovery and innovation. Leveraging a
proprietary discovery and development platform, Aptamer delivers custom
affinity ligands, supported with a complete suite of characterisation and
validatory assays that enhance the translation of its binders and optimise
scientific outcomes for customers.

 

Aptamer's cutting-edge technology spans healthcare, research, personal care,
and industrial processes, delivering new affinity solutions for novel targets,
advanced diagnostics, and precision therapies. By working with industry
leaders in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, personal health, academic, and
clinical research sectors, Aptamer is accelerating science through the custom
development of tools and therapies.

 

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